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In
case
you’re
unfamiliar,
FATCA
stands
for
Foreign
Account
Tax
Compliance
Act.
Or,
in
other
words,
your
current
nightmare
if
you
happen
to
lead
a
financial
services
organization.
The
whole
financial
services
sector
is
affected
by
this
new
regulation
as
U.S.
tax
authorities
extend
the
requirements
of
reporting
and
due
diligence
globally.
If
you’re
a
financial
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Business
rules
management
(BRM)
is
a
key
capability
of
operational
decision
management
(ODM)
technology.
Nothing
new
there.
However,
despite
the
fact
that
BRM
has
been
around
for
several
decades,
there
persists
certain
pockets
of
confusion
about
business
rules
–
from
what
they
are
to
where
they
are
to
how
they
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A
news
story
from
earlier
this
month
provides
a
cautionary
tale
from
the
land
of
big
IT
projects.
The
State
of
California
decided
to
pull
the
plug
on
a
10-year
development
effort
to
create
a
unified
case
management
system
for
the
judicial
courts
across
all
58
of
the
state’s
counties.
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Actually,
it’s
five
things
that
could
prevent
you
from
adopting
any
innovation,
no
matter
how
beneficial
and
proven.
First
a
little
backstory:
I’m
reading
the
“Diffusion
of
Innovations”
by
Everett
M.
Rodgers,
a
book
that
forms
the
underpinnings
of
the
more
recently
popular
concept
of
“Crossing
the
Chasm”
by
Geoffrey
Moore.
Rodgers,
a
sociologist,
describes
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Imagine
...
Ed
Snow
comes
home
from
jogging
to
find
his
wife
Elyse
sick
in
bed.
It's
believed
to
be
a
tumor,
but
scans
turn
up
nothing,
and
treatments
do
nothing
to
stop
Elyse
from
having
seizures
and
hallucinations.
Physicians
narrow
it
down
to
two
diseases
–
rabbit
fever
and
African
sleeping
sickness
–
... [ + Read more ]